According to the participants of the Peramoga plan, the incident occurred during the operation of snowplows. As a result of a series of explosions, the middle and central parts of the aircraft were damaged, as well as avionics and a radar antenna.
On the morning of February 26, a Russian A-50 early warning and control aircraft was blown up at a military airfield in the Belarusian village of Machulishchi. This was written by the Belarusian project BYPOL with reference to the data of the participants in the Peramoga plan.
It is reported that as a result of 2 explosions, the middle and central parts of the aircraft were damaged, as well as avionics and a radar antenna.
“The damage is serious, the plane will definitely not fly anywhere,” the source says.
Russian AWACS A-50 was seriously damaged
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It is also specified that during the incident, snow removal equipment was operating near the Russian AWACS aircraft A-50.
“Probably, as has happened more than once at Russian military facilities, someone again did not comply with fire safety measures and smoked near the side,” the authors of the publication note.
The head of BYPOL, Alexander Azarov, confirmed in a comment to Nasha Niva that Belarusian partisans were involved in the sabotage at the airfield in Machulishche.
The fact that the target of today’s attack on the airfield “Machulishchi” could be the Russian AWACS aircraft A-50 was also reported by “Belarusian Gayun”. According to them, the plane could have been damaged by dropping an unidentified object from a height.
Russian AWACS aircraft A-50 damaged in Machulishchi
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Recall that on February 26, in the vicinity of the Machulishchi airfield, from where planes take off to strike at the territory of Ukraine, several explosions thundered in several places around the airfield.
On the same day, Ukrainian defenders shot down a Su-25 of the Russian Armed Forces, which on February 25 attacked the building of the Avdiivka Coke Plant in the Donetsk region. The pilot of the downed plane was taken prisoner.
Earlier, on February 23, Schemes journalists reported that the Russian Federation was preparing a new airfield with bombers for attacks on Ukraine. For example, Tu-95 strategic bombers were deployed from the Engels-2 airfield near Saratov to the Olenya base in the Murmansk region.
